He'll come back here
for her some day, and her market'll be made. All I hope is that he'll
take her to Boston, or some other foreign place to live an' we shall
see and hear the last of 'em."
CHAPTER XXI
AT HARVARD
The newspapers gave much space to the near approach to miscarriage of
justice in the Wood's case, and many editorials were written on the
fallacy of allowing circumstantial evidence to carry as much weight
as it did. But what was spoken of most was the clever detective work
of Mary Dana. She was the recipient of congratulatory letters for her
work from all parts of the country, and the press could not say too
much in her praise.
Mary received a most flattering offer to join the Isburn Detective
Bureau in Boston. Mr. Irving Isburn, the proprietor of the world-wide
known agency, had for more than fifty years been engaged in solving
mysteries and apprehending offenders against the law. His success had
been phenomenal, and if his agency had been called "The Scotland Yard
of America" it would have been a derogation rather than a compliment.
He had surrounded himself with the most expert men and women in the
profession, and in a letter to Mr. Dana he said he considered Miss
Dana would be a most important and valuable acquisition to his staff.
Mr. Dana, however, decided that Mary was too young to start business
life, so she was sent to Boston to boarding school for a year.
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